Preserve Master?

[Kevin]

I've never been able to understand the purpose of the "Preserve Master" feature of PPT 2002, where it puts that little push-pin next to the master.
Has anyone found a use for this?

I guess I'm just used to my standard title master and slide master.
Thanks,

 

[Kathy J]

Kevin,
Because you can have multiple masters in PPT 2002 and 2003, you can end up
in the situation where you have applied a different master to all of the
slides. In this case, your old master is no longer in use and is removed
from the list of masters. If you preserve the master, the unused master will
remain in the presentation file so that you can still easily apply it to new
or existing slides.

Make sense?

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I've never been able to understand the purpose of the "Preserve Master"
feature of PPT 2002, where it puts that little push-pin next to the master.
Has anyone found a use for this?

I guess I'm just used to my standard title master and slide master.
Thanks,

 

[Echo S]

PPT 2002 and 2003 have multiple masters, a feature not included in previous
versions.

If you create a number of masters for a presentation, and you do not happen
to use all of them in the presentation, PPT will delete the unused masters.
Preserve Masters keeps them from being deleted even if they're not being
used.

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I've never been able to understand the purpose of the "Preserve Master"
feature of PPT 2002, where it puts that little push-pin next to the master.
Has anyone found a use for this?

I guess I'm just used to my standard title master and slide master.
Thanks,

 

[Bill Foley]

I guess it really doesn't matter to me because all I need to do is to go
into the Slide Design Taskpane and select it again, but still a good idea to
make it the default.

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